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Thursday, 24 November 2016

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Black Friday is a significant day where buying and selling of goods and services were at it lowest level and good quality of goods and services, it comes up every last Friday of November which is about one month to Christmas.The history of Black Friday dated back to Thanksgiving Day in the United States (the
fourth Thursday of November). Since 1932, it has been regarded as the beginning
of the Christmas shopping season in the U.S., and
most major retailers open very early (and more recently during overnight hours)
and offer promotional sales. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but
California and some other states observe "The Day After Thanksgiving"
as a holiday for state government employees, sometimes in lieu of another
federal holiday such as Columbus Day.Many non-retail employees and
schools have both Thanksgiving and the following Friday off, which, along with
the following regular weekend, makes it a four-day weekend, thereby increasing
the number of potential shoppers.

It has routinely been the busiest shopping
day of the year since 2005,although news reports, which at that time were
inaccurate, have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a
much longer period of time.Similar stories resurface year upon year at this
time, portraying hysteria and shortage of stock, creating a state of positive
feedback.In 2014, spending volume on Black Friday fell
for the first time since the 2008 recession. $50.9 billion was spent during the
4-day Black Friday weekend, down 11% from the previous year. However, the U.S.
economy was not in a recession. Christmas
creep has been cited as a factor in the diminishing importance of
Black Friday, as many retailers now spread out their promotions over the entire
months of November and December rather than concentrate them on a single
shopping day or weekend.

The earliest evidence of the phrase Black
Friday applied to the day after Thanksgiving in a shopping context suggests
that the term originated in Philadelphia, where it was used to describe the
heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic that would occur on the day
after Thanksgiving. This usage dates to at least 1961. More than twenty years
later, as the phrase became more widespread, a popular explanation became that
this day represented the point in the year when retailers begin to turn a
profit, thus going from being "in the red" to being "in the
black".

For many years, it was common for retailers
to open at 6:00 a.m., but in the late 2000s many had crept to 5:00 or
4:00. This was taken to a new extreme in 2011, when several retailers
(including Target, Kohl's,
Macy's,
Best Buy,
and Bealls) opened at midnight for the first time. In
2012, Walmart
and several other retailers announced that they would open most of their stores
at 8:00 p.m.onThanksgiving Day, prompting calls for a walkout
among some workers. In 2014, stores such as JCPenney,
Best Buy,
and Radio Shack
opened at 5:00 PM on Thanksgiving Day while stores such as Target, Walmart,
Belk, and Sears opened at 6:00 PM on
Thanksgiving Day. Three states, Rhode Island, Maine, and Massachusetts,
prohibit large supermarkets, big box stores, and department stores from opening
on Thanksgiving, due to blue laws.

There have been reports of violence occurring
between shoppers on Black Friday. Since 2006, there have been 7 reported deaths
and 98 injuries throughout the United States. It is common for prospective
shoppers to camp out over the Thanksgiving holiday in an effort to secure a
place in front of the line and thus a better chance at getting desired items.
This poses a significant safety risk (such as the use of propane and generators
in the most elaborate cases, and in general, the blocking of emergency access
and fire lanes, causing at least one city to ban the practice.